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THBGreek Earthenware Protome of Goddess
Lot 15a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Western Greek, Magna Graecia, ca. 6th century BCE. An elegant terracotta protome depicting a lovely goddess with well-modeled facial features wearing a long headdress. A protome is a type of bust made by pressing a thin layer of terracotta into a single mold. These were first made in Rhodes, but from the early fifth century BCE onwards they spread throughout Greece. Originally, this piece would have been painted (to see an example of a painted protome, see the terracotta protome of Dionysos at the British Museum). A lovely example that speaks to the importance of women as religious figures in Magna Graecia. Perforated at top. Custom stand. Size: 4.25" W x 6.75" H (10.8 cm x 17.1 cm); 7" H (17.8 cm) on stand
Greek influenced southern Italy during this time was a place of goddess worship, with Demeter/Ceres, the goddess of the harvest, having a very popular cult. She is the oldest god known from the Roman pantheon, with an inscription found at Falerii dating to 600 BCE. However, many other women both real and mythical played a role in Magna Graecia religion, including priestesses of the Eleusinian mystery cult, a cult of Isis, a cult of Cybele mentioned in the Aeneid, and the women who every year took part in the festival of the Thesmophoria, which was for women only by law and renewed the harvest.
Provenance: private Swiss collection
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#124192Repaired from two large pieces. Expected surface wear with minor abraded areas and encrustation. White mineral deposits visible on verso.Condition
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